Etymology

langaj

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Today it means: A sacred or incantatory language used in Haitian voodoo rituals. Full definition →

Haitian Creole langaj ← French langage ← Middle French language
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The story

  1. Latindingua
  2. Latinlingua
  3. Vulgar Latin*linguāticum
  4. Old Frenchlanguage
  5. Middle Frenchlanguage
  6. Frenchlangage
  7. Haitian Creolelangaj
  8. English todaylangaj

Borrowed from Haitian Creole langaj, from French langage (“language”). Doublet of language.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.